List of recent past Orals questions

 ALL COLREG SOUND SIGNALS, LIGHTS IN ALL CONDITIONS!

 KNOW COLREGS LIKE THE BACK OF YOUR HAND!
 KNOW ALL SHAPES, TOP MARKS, LIGHT CHARACTERISTICS, COLOURS FOR ALL LATERAL,
CARDINAL, SAFE, WRECK, SPECIAL WATER MARKERS!
 Joining a 34m vessel in 1B survey, can you drive it and where?
 What Is master 45 limits?
 What do you do when joining a vessel for the first time?
 Describe safe access and what makes it safe?
 What do you do when you SMS does not contain much information?
 What is required in a SMS
 What is required in your vessel logbook?
 When on 34m vessel out of Darwin and owner asks you to load DG, can you? If so, how
would you load and secure them?
 Flooding situation in the engine room what do you do? Situation is out of control and you
know need to abandon ship, talk me through the steps.
 What marine orders apply to DCV vessels? 90’s and 500’s
 What do you do when detecting a vessel forward of your beam in restricted visibility?
 When detecting vessel by radar in restricted visibility what do you do?
 You transit from tropical water into dock water, then fresh where would your draft line move
to on a load line?
 Where do you load to on your load line?
 On the chart describe to me symbols, pilot boarding, wreck, racon, lighthouse, depths, TSS,
pilot boarding grounds etc.
 Describe compass rose variation and complete calculation.
 Towing operations and considerations when navigating. Depths, bridges, density of traffic
 Your vessel is 1E can It tow a barge up a river?
 Draw arc of visibility for lights on vessel
 Draw all characteristics of all IALA buoyage. Top marks, shapes, lights etc.
 What is your action in the event of grounding?
 Define constrained by draught?
 You see another vessel aground what is your actions?
 Explain a TRS, how do you avoid it? What actions do you take when one is forecasted? How
could you navigate it?
 When is a vessels survey period?
 How is the frequency and type of drills determined onboard with crew?
 How do you test an EPIRB
 How do you respond to a galley fire?
 What is the percentage in change of deadweight before your stability booklet needs to be
recalculated?
 How is a crane tested?
 Can you lift loads beyond SWL?
 How does a hydrostatic release work on a life raft?
 What are the contents of a life raft?
 What safety equipment does your vessel have onboard?
 You’re a Captain of a passenger vessel completing a transfer what do you check before
commencing work?
 What aspects are different between passenger/cargo/fishing vessels? Stability, equipment
onboard, passage planning, documents required etc.
 What equipment would you find in the bridge?
 What do you include in your passage plan?
 How do you ensure charts onboard are up to date?
 What standing orders would you include during a passage for your watchkeeper
 What documents are in the bridge to assists with navigation?
 What is the difference between marine notices and notice to mariners?
 Describe parallel indexing?
 How do you plot in sight of land and out of sight of land?
 How do you tune and use your radar?
 When and why do you need a pilot onboard?
 What is VTS? VTS zone? And what communications are needed to be communicated with
them?
 What are some obstructions to your radar?
 If you are keeping a good lookout what are obstructions examples for on deck and within the
wheelhouse for cargo and fishing vessels
 Why does a vessel float?
 What is free surface effect?
 What is down flooding?
 The three rules of stability
 What is a righting lever in relation to stiff and tender vessel?
 What is the effect on stability when a compartment is bilged, damaged, or holed?
 What contents are included in your stability book?
 What is ls shown on a GZ curve?
 What is the difference between list and loll, how do you correct both?
 Describe the checks you would make on a vessel’s stability and cargo loading.
 How do you prepare for bunkering?
 What do you do when there is an oil spill on deck and then into the water?
 What is the IMDG code?
 List the MARPOL annexes.
 What is ballast water management?
 What do you do when there is a MOB?
 What documents ensure crew comply with garbage management?
 How does electronic chart system work? How do you know its accurate?
 How do you determine your vessels position?
 Actions in the event of a blackout, loss of steering? What shapes or lights do you display?
 How do you determine risk of collision in restricted visibility?
 How do you decide where to anchor and the scope required?
 How do you handle dangerous goods that has come loose from the container?
 What is the master’s responsibility and authority?
 Describe how the legislative framework works.
 How are marine orders formed?
 What is a marine surveyor’s role and who do they work for?
 Who conducts stability surveys?
 What devices do you use to predict weather?
 What is the typical weather experienced with a warm/cold front?
 What information is on a Cert of Operation?
 How can a vessel obtain a Cert of Operation what requirements does it need to meet?
 How do you plot a fix? At least 4 different ways and how you do it?
 How do you tune a radar? What can interfere with a radar?
 Out of water survey, how do you plan? What do you do?
 Stability, does G move first or after weight is moved? Can B move vertically up when
stationary?
 How do you secure cargo properly and how do you know the equipment is safe to use? What
are the types of cargo securing methods?
 Where can you discharge garbage in special areas? What condition does the garbage have to
be?
 Who is required to carry garbage logbooks?
 Hydrostatic release, what is it? How does it work? After the vessel has sunk the life raft has
floated to the surface but is still in its hard shell why did this happen?
 How often should you test your EPIRB?
 Is it a requirement by law to conduct a head count? Where is that law stated?
 How often does your vessel need to be surveyed? What is AMSAs role in supplying and
renewing them?
 What is in a cargo surveyors manual?
 What is a TRS and wind conditions in and near a TRS?
 How long do you have to complete form 18? And form 19?
 What is EPIRB requirements, how often do you test? What happens when you test?
 Actions for Galley fire?
 What is the difference between cold/warm fronts?
 On a synoptic chart how can you tell what wind you might experience?
 What Is the safe working loads of cranes? Can you lift over it? If so how much?
 Deficiencies of a plotter?
 You are going from Hobart to Cairns what tide charts do you need? What charts and how do
you tell if they are up to date?
 What is the difference between marine notice and notice to mariners?
 SMS what is it?
 What is a marine order? How are they Law?
 Bunkering precautions?
 Explain different transverse stability diagrams
 How do you determine a vessels FWA? What is it?
 How do you determine DWA? What is it?
 IMDG container markings and stowage?
 Your DG has a chemical leak how do you combat it?
 What are your MARPOL annex? Do they apply to every vessel?
 Who is exempt from rule 10?
 How do you know a surveyor is accredited? Can they survey anything?
 What do you expect from your lookouts? Without quoting rule 5. Practically what do you
expect form your lookouts
 What is a GZ curve. Is there such thing as a good or bad looking GZ curve?
 What is in your stability book?
 What does a GZ graph tell you?
 How do you correct a angle of Loll
 What is a Bill of landing?
 What is a Manifest in terms of DG